Monday, January 31, 2011

Aleksander Andrzej, 32, would have been nearly 30 times the legal limit for driving.He was spotted in the Warsaw park and taken to hospital by police.A breath test showed he had 1,024 micrograms per 100ml, which doctors believe helped him live.The legal limit is 35mg – and they added that even 300mg is potentially deadly.He is expected to make a full recovery.

Stinky -Illegal farting law causes big stink

The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders 'who foul the air' in a bid to 'mould responsible and disciplined citizens.'But locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be difficult - and may lead to miscarriages of justice as 'criminals' attempt to blame others for their offence.One Malawian told the website Africanews.com: 'My goodness. What happens in a public place where a group is gathered? Do they lock up half a minibus?' And how about at meetings where it is difficult to pinpoint ‘culprits’. Children will openly deny having passed bad air and point at an elder. Culturally, this is very embarrassing,' she said.Another said: 'We have serious issues affecting Malawians today. I do not know how fouling the air should take priority over regulating Chinese investments which do not employ locals, serious graft amongst legislators, especially those in the ruling party, and many more.'

Drinker banned from bar for stealing condom machine

Miklos Antal told police he had ‘met a hot girl at the bar and needed condoms for later’ and was also low on cash. ‘So I thought I’d solve both my problems at once,’ added the 28-year-old, who was caught at the bar in Nyiregyhaza in the north-east of the country.Witnesses claim that Antal was seen attempting to hide the machine under his jacket, but they noticed that he was concealing something as he was trying to leave the bar.The locals then notified police who gave the would be robber a lifetime ban from the establishment. Antal's embarrassment will possibly be eased by knowing that he is in good company, such as an 11-year-old who got his fingers stuck in a condom machine.

LOL-Wife files for divorce when new husband brings mother on honeymoon

A WIFE filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband insisted his mother came on the honeymoon.

Beautician Marianna, 36, who can only be identified by her first name because of Italian privacy laws, thought she was free of her suffocating mother-in-law after a lavish church ceremony in Rome.But 39-year-old Stefano, a salesman, had secretly booked his mother into the same five-star Paris hotel. The first Marianna knew about it was when the woman turned up at the airport.

The wife’s lawyer Giacinto Canzona said: “She wants a divorce because of her husband’s excessive emotional attachment to his mother. The mother-in-law was already living next door to the couple and things were tense but the straw that broke the camel’s back was when she found she was coming on honeymoon with them.“All three travelled to Paris and it was very tense, made worse by the fact that the honeymoon coincided with Christmas so Marianna spent a lot of time with her.”

He said his client has since left her husband and is living in Naples.A recent study showed Italy has the highest number of mature men still living with their parents.

Stealer Playboy priest convicted of £2million fraud

LISTENING sympathetically to his troubled parishioners, Father Antoine Videau portrayed himself as a caring priest.

But he was stealing money from collection boxes and charity donations and was convicted yesterday of fraud after amassing a £2million fortune over 20 years.Videau, 64, also lived with a young mistress in a luxury villa and lavished the stolen cash on a string of women he drove around Europe in his red Ferrari.The playboy padre defrauded nuns by renting out rooms in their convent as holiday flats and he spent church funds on a “cultural pilgrimage” to Las Vegas, the Sin City.

He had 28 bank accounts for the cash and even siphoned off £500,000 fromthe estate of an archbishop after making himself the executor of the will. Videau, the parish priest in Calacuccia on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, cleverly concealed his wild life from his trusting flock. Prosecuting lawyer Angeline Tomasi said the priest “did not know the difference between right and wrong” and described him as “manipulative and predatory”. She added: “He broke Church laws and the country’s laws.”

Friday, January 28, 2011

AN Illinois woman who was arrested after allegedly attacking a police officer with a sex toy said today she was acting in self-defence.

Carolee Bildsten, 57, was arrested in December for failing to appear at a hearing regarding the November incident, Trib Local said. She had allegedly charged toward an officer with a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” when the officer went to Ms Bildsten’s apartment after she was accused of skipping out on a restaurant tab.

Employees at Joe’s Crab Shack in Gurnee, located in the Chicago metropolitan area, said Ms Bildsten left the restaurant without paying for a second time. But Ms Bildsten said in an interview today that she had mistakenly left her credit card at home because she “wanted to travel light” that night.She said she told the bartender she would retrieve the money at her home and return to pay her bill. Admittedly intoxicated and suffering from a broken foot, Ms Bildsten began walking to her apartment, but tripped and fell on her way home; Trib Local reported.The officer involved in the incident first encountered Ms Bildsten lying in the grass. Ms Bildsten said he was “kind enough to take me home,” so she could retrieve her wallet.

According to a police report, once home, Ms Bildsten reached into a dresser drawer for what the officer believed was money to pay the bill, but instead pulled out the sex toy and charged toward the officer. The officer deflected the attack with his hand and was not injured. But Ms Bildsten told Trib Local toay that she became “a little bit afraid” when the officer came to her apartment. She said she had recently read a news article about an officer who was convicted of sexual assault.“I got scared. And the only thing in my sock drawer besides my socks and my cash was a dildo,” she said.Ms Bildsten denied she attacked the officer, saying she only “instinctively raised it up in a defensive move.”

Ms Bildsten, who said she sent a money order the next day to Joe’s Crab Shack to cover her tab, intends to plead not guilty to aggravated assault at a hearing on Thursday at the LakeCounty courthouse in Waukegan.

OMG-Mom run over by own car gets new set of wheels

WICHITA, Kan. — you could call it a twist of fate or perhaps a fortunate accident. But Caressa Jones says if she hadn't been run over by her own car last year, she wouldn't have the new van she so desperately needs and she wouldn't know how many people in the community care. "It's amazing because you think there are no good people anymore and there actually are a lot more than you think," she said. Jones, a single mother of five, had been forced to crawl under her old car with an ice pick to get it started — her temporary solution to a broken starter. But, in November of last year her daily routine went horribly wrong."I forgot to put it in park and I went under there and left it in drive and I went under to start it again and it started and it just ran me over," she said.Jones was rushed to the hospital in serious condition. Getting around on foot still requires a walker, but getting around town will be a lot easier for her now thanks the members of the community and the Cars 4 Christmas program."This is a year-long program and when there is a special need that comes up in the community, we try to fill that need," said Darrell Rankin with All Parts Auto Salvage. "And this was one that was brought to our attention and we thought it was a worthy cause."

"I've got kids in two different schools and they've got activities and it's going to be able to get us to do everything we need to do," said Jones.

Wow-Are You Ready For Royal Wedding condoms

'Like a Royal Wedding, intercourse with a loved one is an unforgettable occasion', so reads the back of this deluxe box of regal condoms.

Crown Jewels, who've also kindly sent us some 'review items', believe that the amorous air brought about by the joyous union of Wills and Kate this spring has left a gap in the market for royal-themed birth control. Describing themselves as 'the world's leading supplier of heritage prophylactics' the company have already shifted more than 1,000 units on their website since launching yesterday.Lavishly anointed with lube and ribbed for enhanced lovemaking, the royal sheaths allow the wearer to live like a king for a day (a few minutes).Don't get too excited though, the condoms don't actually work.

The Crown Jewels condoms carry a disclaimer advising would-be lovers they are designed as a souvenir and are not suitable for... well... doing what they're supposed to.

'Sadly, the disclaimer was required for legal reasons,' company spokesperson Hugh Pomfret told Metro.co.uk.'But since our prophylactics are designed as an heirloom product, we would encourage people to keep hold of them as a memento of a special national occasion.'They are of course welcome to enjoy the supple latex and gliding lubrication of our products, but we are required to advise that they are not suitable to prevent STDs or pregnancy.

Fate-Unluckiest man in the world

The 47-year-old was taken to Tampa GeneralHospital, and said he had woken up surrounded by paramedics with a hole burned in his sock.

The last thing he remembers is leaning over a metal sink, with a severe storm raging outside, speaking on the phone. Agan has hit headlines in the past because of his extraordinary misfortune, which included an incident four years ago when he was robbed at gunpoint while driving his taxi and got locked in the boot.He also suffered injuries after being stabbed in the chest with a butcher's knife in 2008, and, more recently in 2009, he claimed he was bitten by two snakes at the same time.Although experts have questioned whether all his injuries are genuine - especially the snake incident and now the lightning strike - he stands by his claims.Some have suggested he is an attention seeker, or even self-harming (in the most bizarre ways possible) in order to receive pain medication. But this time he also has the word of his daughter, Misty, to back him up as she was at home when he was apparently befallen by the freak bolt from the sky.

'I don't care what people say. Any day of the week, I'll go take a [lie detector] test,' Mr Agan told the St Petersburg Times.

Costly-Urination plus a colleague's door equals trouble.

That's the hard lesson to take away from the case of a California State University-Northridge math professor, who allegedly urinated on a colleague's door on campus.

Tihomir Petrov, 43, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place. His arraignment was scheduled for Thursday at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando, according to the AP.School officials' yellow flags went up when they saw what they suspected was urine outside another math professor's door. Petrov was rumored to be in dispute with his colleague, according to school officials.

They allegedly struck gold by capturing an incident on camera in early December.

Too big-Prisoner ‘too big for cell’

His lawyer, Bas Martens, told a court in The Hague that at 2.07m (6ft 9in) tall and 230kg (36 stone) his client is too big and too fat to fit in the cell he was assigned. But Martens claims: ‘He is not obese. He is a giant. He even walks like a giant, like out of the comic books.’ MacD, who is serving a two-year sentence for fraud, has a long list of complaints. His bed is apparently too small, forcing him to sleep on his side ‘with one eye open in case he falls out of bed’. He also claims he has to crouch under the shower, keep toilet trips to a minimum as the seat is too low and small, and has nowhere to sit in the prison canteen. Martens argue that his client’s living conditions violate the European Convention on Human Rights, and wants MacD to be allowed to serve the rest of his sentence at home under house arrest. He claims that the oversized fraudster isn’t trying to get out of serving his sentence, but that he ‘just wants to serve a comparable sentence without pain.’ A ruling on the case is expected next month.

A BRITISH soldier serving in Afghanistan made an emotional marriage proposal over the phone to his pregnant girlfriend - but left the message with the wrong number.

The mystery soldier, who failed to leave his name, thought he was asking his pregnant girlfriend Samantha to marry him, but apparently called the wrong number and left the message, released today, with Diane Potts, a mum-of-three from Gateshead, northern England.The man is heard saying, "Don't ever forget I love you, I love you so much, I love you with all my heart and I was going to ask you, don’t answer, obviously you can’t answer, but will you marry me?"He also speaks of his sadness at apparently losing a friend in a roadside bomb and tells his sweetheart that he will not return to the UK for three months and is unable to call again for another month.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

A DESPERATE Turkish man living in Germany has turned to the police for protection from his insatiable wife's constant demands for sex, authorities said yesterday. The man came to his local police station in southwestern Germany this week saying that he had been sleeping on the sofa for the past four years to escape the clutches of his wife of 18 years and mother of their two children."Now he has decided to get a divorce and to move out ... in the hope of finally getting some rest, particularly as he is anxious to arrive at work well rested," police said in a statement.

"At the moment this is impossible because he says his wife keeps coming into the living room demanding that he perform his marital duties. He asked for police help in getting some sleep at night."

Boozy Aussies wear beer goggles

BOOZY Aussies at the butt of beer goggle jokes may take some comfort from a new survey which found the phenomenon is common among drinkers. The beer goggle phenomenon - where a night on the tiles is apparently helping transform ugly ducklings into beauties across the nation - is being studied, with men and women revealing how their judgment has been affected on a night out.Nearly a quarter of those who took part in the FebFast survey said they find others better looking after having a few drinks.A tipple or two also boosts their own self-confidence, the results show, with many admitting to feeling sexier after getting on the grog.And almost one in four of the 1009 respondents said a few drinks also helps them believe others find them more aesthetically pleasing.Almost three quarters of those surveyed said they don't find drinkers attractive when they're not under the influence themselves.The nationally-weighted survey, which quizzed drinkers aged 20 to 69, also found 27 per cent of people feel the need to drink at work gatherings to fit in or be accepted.Almost one third also believe drinking at these events will help them form better relationships with colleagues, while one in five said they had done something they later regretted.

FebFast patron and media personality Sarah Wilson said perceptions of drinking are linked to feeling good.

"We've been lulled into thinking (that) drinking makes us feel better, more at ease," she said in a statement.

"Many of us drink to avoid feeling nervous or bored and to quash end-of-day agitation. But many of us don't know what it feels like to be comfortable socially without the crutch alcohol provides."FebFast commissioned the survey, conducted via the internet in November, ahead of its February campaign, designed to encourage Australians to stop drinking for the entire month.

It aims to raise money to help youngsters overcome drug and alcohol problems while at the same time improving people's health.That's probably a good thing, given the results also reveal how regular drinkers believe their habit is not doing them any harm.One in four said they hadn't gone for more than a week without drinking, while half of those said they had not taken a longer break because they believed their health wasn't being affected.

Men were also revealed to be bigger drinkers than women, with more than 11 per cent of blokes downing 15 standard drinks in a week compared to five per cent of women.Women, on the other hand, are more inclined to drink from stress stemming from relationship issues.Forty one per cent said spousal problems prompted them to pick up the bottle, compared to just 26 per cent of men.

LOL Lawsuit-U.S. lawmaker sues over olive pit

WASHINGTON - A veteran U.S. lawmaker has taken legal action after biting into an olive in a sandwich and hurting his tooth on the pit.Dennis Kucinich, 64, a representative from Ohio who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination two times, sued food service companies operating in a congressional cafeteria on Capitol Hill.Andrew Young, a lawyer for the congressman, on Wednesday declined to discuss the lawsuit, copies of which have been widely reported in the media, saying it was private.The suit, filed early this month, states Kucinich bought a sandwich wrap in the cafeteria at the Longworth Office Building in April 2008 that had an olive without the pit removed.The “unfit and unwholesome” olive caused the congressman dental damage, requiring multiple procedures and resulting in a “loss of enjoyment,” according to the suit.

For that, Kucinich is seeking $150,000.Compass Group USA Inc, Performance Food Group Co and Foodbuy LLC are named in the lawsuit filed in Washington. Company spokesmen could not be reached immediately for comment.

WOW-Public urination arrest leads to fugitive's capture after 27 years

TAMPA — Edward Nathan Jr. just couldn't hold it in. That cost him his freedom. Nathan, now 50, escaped from a Tampa work release center in 1983. After eluding capture for nearly three decades, authorities said, he was arrested Friday on a public urination charge in Fulton County, Ga.Nathan was living under the name Claude Brooks, but fingerprints revealed his true identity as a fugitive, the Florida Department of Corrections said. Nathan was serving a five-year sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon in a DuvalCounty case when he escaped from the TampaCommunityCorrectionalCenter on Aug. 27, 1983.

Authorities are arranging for Nathan to be returned to Florida.

LOL-Man who mistakenly thought he had outstanding warrants flees, is arrested, police say

FRANKLIN, Tenn.— A Franklin man who started a police chase thought there was a warrant out for his arrest. There wasn't, but he ended up in handcuffs anyway.On Tuesday, Timothy Steele and his friend were pulled over for a broken brake light. Steele thought he had outstanding warrants, so he got out of the car and took off, police said. Officers chased him down West Main Street and tackled him. There weren't any warrants, but Steele was arrested on charges of evading police.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A California man is hoping to have a line of soft drinks laced with the psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis available on the U.S. market by February. Soquel, Calif., commercial artist and designer Clay Butler has told local media he doesn't do drugs, drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes but feels adults should be able to ingest what they choose.

"Even though, personally, I'm not interested and I don't think it's right for me," Butler told the Santa Cruz Sentinel, "I'm a firm believer that adults have an inalienable right to think, eat, smoke, drink, ingest, decorate, dress any way they choose to do so. It's your life; it's your body." Though other marijuana sodas exist, Butler feels his design background will ensure the marketing of his product will be different. Other sodas are "so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he said.

The "Just Say Yes" slogan and logo featuring a cannabis leaf made out of soda pop bubbles are aimed at trying to get the product to appeal to a wider audience. But U.S. laws means the soda will only be legally available to patients with a medical marijuana prescription. Canna Cola will be the flagship product but the line will include other flavours, such as Doc Weed, Sour Diesel, Grape Ape and Orange Kush. Each soda will contain 35 to 65 milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is substantially less than what is found in similar drinks, giving Clay's products a milder marijuana taste. The bottles are expected to sell between $10 to $15. The marijuana soda is slated to go on sale at medical-marijuana dispensaries in some of the western states beginning in February.

The posting appeared briefly Friday on classifieds website Kijiji, according to Cape Breton Regional Police.

The ad listed a two-month-old Sydney, N.S., baby boy for sale and provided the contact information of his parents, police said.

Police visited the home and found the mother and her seven-month-old child were not in distress. The mother wasn't aware of the posting.Police are trying to track down who posted the ad but currently suspect it was just a bad joke.

The post has since been removed from Kijiji.

Godzilla-like creature' nabbed in Calif.Town

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Animal services officers often get calls reporting "huge," monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake. The 5-foot Monitor lizard wandering around a condo complex in the city of Riverside was way bigger than animal control officer Jenny Selter could have imagined."She said she saw it and almost jumped back in her truck," said John Welsh, spokesman for Riverside County Animal Services. "The residents were freaking out because here's the Godzilla-like creature walking down the sidewalk."Selter managed to get a catch pole — a long pole with a loop at the end that's used to handle vicious dogs — around the animal's neck, Welsh said. It was docile at first, but then it started hissing.

Carnivorous -A police officer grabbed the lizard's body while Selter held onto its sharp, lashing tail, and together they put it in a compartment of her truck that's usually used for large dogs.Back at the shelter, staff found the reptile was well-behaved for a Monitor lizard."The last one we had was nasty. But this one doesn't hiss and we were able to walk it around. It was investigating and didn't snap at anyone," Welsh said. "We suspect that it's been someone's pet for a long time, because it's so big. I think they might let it wander around the house. Maybe it sleeps on a bean bag?"Welsh thinks the scaly pet might have escaped its cage or gotten loose while its owner was away, and he hoped its owner comes to claim it soon.

Wow-Calif. girls hospitalized after eating pot cookie

COVINA, Calif. — Police in California say two children were hospitalized after eating a marijuana cookie they found on a kitchen counter, and their mother was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment. Covina police Lt. Tim Doonan says the girls, ages 10 and 11, found the chocolate chip cookie in a baggie when they came home from school on Monday.

Doonan tells the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that the girls felt ill, complaining of numbness and pale, clammy skin, and were taken to a hospital, where tests showed traces of marijuana.Their mother, 33-year-old Veronica Sylvester, remained in jail Wednesday on $100,000 bail.Doonan says she told detectives she got the cookie from a friend for medical purposes. But Doonan says Sylvester had no prescription for the drug.

World's first tram sauna unveiled in Milan

Unfortunately this real tram is no longer in operation and sits in one place at the spa resort in northern Italy.But, created by public transport designers QC Termemilano, it has all the features of the original carriage - except now it's a bit more wooden inside, a bit hotter, and a bit stuffier.It comes complete with hot coals and benches - as well as the tram's trademark pitched roof and open window views of its surroundings. The designers claim the idea is to show commuters that public transport needn't always be stressful.A spokesman said: 'People can get very stressed travelling through a city centre.'This innovative design is to show that not all public transport is frustrating. It can be somewhere to relax.'The historical Carelli tram sits in the middle of a spa complex on a real track, all of its own.And models frequently turn up to pose by it too, apparently.

A man films himself being run over by a train

This incredible footage shows the moment a man lays down on a rail track and lets a high speed train run over him.

The bizzare act has been balsted as 'stupidity in the extreme' by Network Rail.

A spokesman said: "It is stupidity in the extreme. It doesn't bear thinking about what would have happened if the turbulence created had swept the man's coat up into the underside of the train. "The shocking footage shoes the man lying length ways between thetracks while an approaching train terrifyingly thunders over the top of him. He seems inches from death as he presses himself tightly to the floor while the train passes by.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The father-of-two has taken ‘Bianca’ on road trips across the US and to Britain, including visits to Oxford and Stonehenge. But the 57-year-old insisted his wife Wendy – a retired doctor – doesn’t mind.

‘She knows I’m not going to run off with a piece of silicone shaped like a woman,’ he said.

Weighing 40kg (90lb), Bianca has to be moved in a wheelchair. She is one of 14 dolls on whom Mr Hockey has spent £16,000 on travel and outfits, including £1,270 of lingerie.

Mr Hockey has even taken Bianca skydiving. ‘The instructor who jumped in tandem with her said it made a pleasant change to not have someone screaming in his ear,’ he said.

Extreme winning- Man has ‘mini’ tattooed on penis to win car

The crazy German decided to have the rather painful tattoo after a radio station ran a competition to win a £20,000 Mini Cooper. The brief: whoever pulled the craziest stunt to get the car would win.

Unsurprisingly, Muller’s offer to have the car manufacturer’s name branded on to his penis topped the list of crazy suggestions. here were a lot of crazy stunts put forward by listeners, but Andreas won by a short head,’ said one of the competition’s organisers. Radio listeners were then treated to Muller’s cries of agony while the unique piece of branding was created. Muller claims the pain was worth it, saying: ‘Once I’m sitting in the car, it won’t matter anymore. Then the pain will be gone and it’ll be alright.’ It has not been reported whether or not Mr Muller has a girlfriend.

Sickening Idea-Crematorium to heat swimming pool

UNDERTAKERS have branded plans to use heat from a crematorium to warm a swimming pool as “sick”.

Bathers will be splashing around in hot water created by cremations, saving more than £14,000 a year in heating bills, if they go ahead.The council in Redditch, Worcs – which would be the first to adopt the idea – argues it is an eco-friendly and money-saving way of warming the pool at the Abbey Stadium.But funeral director Simon Thomas said yesterday: “I don’t know how comfortable people would feel about the swimming pool being heated due to the death of a loved one. I think it’s a bit eerie.“Trying to save money due to the death of someone’s family member or friend is a bit sick.

“It will cause uproar and may even put people off using the facilities. It just doesn’t feel right.”

See How Car Get Frozen (video)

Call it a “car-cicle!” TODAY takes a look at amazing video showing a car frozen solid after being doused in water in New York City’s deep freeze.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Dr Marie-Catherine Klarkowski said: ‘The most important thing is to take away patients’ fear. The sight of cleavages gets patients narcotised and distracted from the pain rather quickly. ‘Some patients’ mouths are already wide open on entering the practice.’It is unclear if the patients feel less pain but the number of clients going to the Relax & Smile practice in Munich has risen by a third since the change. Yes, they are all men.Dr Klarkowski came up with the fleshy idea at an Oktoberfest event after seeing how men ogled waitresses in their traditionally revealing ‘dirndl’ outfits.

The change has also seen the practice turned into an ‘Alpine lounge’ with open fireplace, deer antlers on the wall and wooden benches for patients.‘The competition doesn’t sleep. I know colleagues who have decorated their whole practice with Mickey Mouse and one even in Star Trek style,’ added the 41-year-old. And the nurses say the £430 costumes do it for them, too.

‘I much prefer working in a dirndl, I enjoy looking good at work and it’s a lot more fun since we had the new outfits,’ said employee Larisa Hrustic.The cunning tactic could be used alongside a new device that filters out the sound of a dentist’s drill.

It plugs into an MP3 player, ‘locks on’ to the harsh drilling noise and removes it, British researchers told Metro two weeks ago. So, soon you could be able to ogle in perfect peace.

Watch Your GPS- car crashes into church

BERLIN - Two British seniors landed in hospital in southern Germany after their car’s global positioning system directed them to drive into a church.While driving their Renault in the evening on a back road near the Austrian border, the navigation system instructed the couple to turn right where there was no road.“They were confused and didn’t notice that the navigation system was faulty,” a police spokeswoman said.The 76-year-old driver then ploughed into the side of the village church, writing off the car, knocking a picture off the wall and damaging the building’s foundations. Total damages were some 25,000 euros, police in the nearby town of Immenstadt said.The couple, who were travelling to France, spent the evening in hospital recuperating from minor injuries.

Man lets son drive because he was too drunk

TAMPA, Fla. — A man in central Florida has been charged with child neglect after authorities say he let his 15-year-old son drive because the man was too drunk. HillsboroughCounty deputies stopped 41-year-old Darran Foraker's Dodge Caravan on Saturday night because its brake lights were out. An arrest report says that's when they discovered the minivan was being driven by Foraker's son.The arrest report says the father told deputies he was too drunk to drive and didn't have money to stay at a hotel because he spent it all on alcohol. He also told deputies he was too drunk to care for the teen.Deputies arrested the man and took him to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he was held on $2,000 bail.

Smart Horse stuck in swimming pool

The four-year-old animal, whose name caused some mirth for the pool owners once the initial shock of discovering a horse had worn off, had to be pulled free with a series of ropes and a lot of team-work.Mischief, who lives in Godshill in the New Forest, had apparently wandered into a neighbour's garden - unaware of the pool because of a plastic tarpaulin sheet.

The horse appeared distressed when it was unable to escape from it's icy bath - but a local vet was called to sedate the animal before the fire crew pulled it to safety.Judging by the photo (above) several of the fireman failed to see the funny side. Mischief also looks a little peeved. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service watch manager Jim Green said the horse is now safe and back with its owner.And the next priority for Mischief's neighbours is a better fence.

Fake ATM prank leaves London girl covered in mysterious substance

In a short YouTube video shot by intrigued onlookers, a film crew is seen gathered around the corner from the tampered cash dispenser. As the woman approaches and starts to use the ATM, a torrent of a cream-coloured liquid is unleashed - several litres of it, from the looks of things, which leads to a shocked lifelessness as the girl stumbles away. Moments later, the film crew rush to the woman and offer her a towel to clean herself up. Several YouTube viewers have reacted angrily to the stunt, claiming the crew went too far. One user said: 'If that happened to me, the first person that walks up to me will get stabbed. No joke. Keep this s*** in London.' Meanwhile, another wrote: 'That's utterly ridiculous. Pranks shouldn't completely ruin your clothes.

'I hope they find the dudes and arrest 'em.' Some have managed to spot that the scene is less than organic, stating: 'You know that this is a film crew filming an actor, right?'

Friday, January 21, 2011

A New Jersey cook has been sentenced to 15 days in jail and two years probation after he put his chest and pubic hair into a sandwich to get back at a cop. Ryan Burke, 27, pleaded guilty Oct. 12 to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and retaliation for a past official action. Court heard on Feb. 21, 2010, two police officers walked into a restaurant for a meal break. Burke was working and told Evesham Township Police he recognized one of the officers. Burke had refused to stop for the officer for a traffic violation in March 2009, which resulted in charges. On the day the officers walked into the restaurant, Burke admitted he "ripped a quantity of chest and pubic hair from his body and placed them in the sandwich he had prepared for the officer." The officer ate part of the sandwich before discovering the hair.

Burke was sentenced Jan. 14, police said in a release on Wednesday. He will serve his time on weekends.

Evesham Township, N.J., is located 30 km southeast of Philadelphia.

Woman found naked after crashing car into building

21-year-old Amber D. Dittrich, from Brighton, Iowa, apparently veered off the road on March 30, 2010, before crashing into a building.

Shortly after the crash, officers who attended the scene found Dittrich at a nearby intersection, wearing no clothes.

After taking her to the hospital to treat an ankle injury that she sustained as a result of the crash, Dittrich was asked to provide a urine sample, which came back positive for marijuana. She has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Hickey partially paralyzes New Zealand woman

A woman was partially paralyzed from a hickey that caused her to have a small stroke, the New Zealand Medical Journal said according to a media report. The 44-year-old New Zealander went to the emergency room after she found that she couldn't move her left arm while she was watching TV, The Christchurch Press reported. Doctors concluded that she had had a stroke but were perplexed as to why, the paper said. Then they found a "love bite" on her neck near a major artery, and discovered a clot in the artery beneath the hickey — a small vertical bruise.

"Because it was a love bite there would be a lot of suction," said Dr. Wu, who attended to the woman over a year ago at the MiddlemoreHospital in Auckland, according to the paper. "Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel."

He added the clot traveled to the woman's heart and caused the stroke. "We looked at the medical literature and that example of having a love bite causing something like that hasn't been described before," Dr Wu said. The Maori woman was treated with an anticoagulant and the clot disappeared within a week, doctors said.

Lucky-Train cuts car in half — but driver walks away

PACOIMA, Calif. — A motorist fell asleep while his car was stopped on railroad tracks Thursday — but survived uninjured when a Union Pacific cargo train cut his vehicle in half. The driver, an elderly man, was uninjured but was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, Sgt. Dave Mascarenas of the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic division told the newspaper. The man drove his Hyundai Sonata past the caution arm of the tracks. A 59-car train struck the car and ripped it in half, leaving the driver in the rear part, Mascarenas said. The force of the accident caused the tracks underneath the train to bend and buckle all the way to its destination in Sylmar, he said.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

MIAMI — Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs, Florida sheriff's deputies said Wednesday. The ashes were taken from a woman's home in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on Dec. 15. The thieves took an urn containing the ashes of her father and another container with the ashes of her two Great Danes, along with electronic equipment and jewelry, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.Investigators learned what happened to the ashes after they arrested five teens in connection with another burglary attempt at a nearby home last week."The suspects mistook the ashes for either cocaine or heroin. It was soon discovered that the suspects snorted some of the ashes believing they were snorting cocaine," the sheriff's report said.

Once they realized their error, the suspects discussed returning the remaining ashes but threw them in a lake instead because they thought their fingerprints were on the containers, sheriff's spokesman Judge Cochran said.

Police divers were trying to recover the ashes. The suspects were jailed on numerous charges of burglary and other crimes.

Angry passenger staged a Protest by stripping down to his underpants.

Chen Weiwei snapped after queueing patiently for five hours for tickets to Shanqiu, central China, only to be told they were sold out by the time he got to the front.'My wife is expecting a baby and we are anxious to get home," explained the migrant builder, 32.'But after all that queueing I couldn't take it any more so I marched into the station master's office and showed him just what I thought of his station by taking off all my clothes,' he added.Mr Weiwei abandoned his protest after police in Jinhua, eastern China, warned him that he faced public indecency charges unless he got dressed.

Lottery winner should have to split the money with her estranged husband

An Idaho woman who won $190 million in a Mega Millions jackpot may need to split her winnings with an estranged husband. Attorneys differ on interpreting whether she owes him any of her millions. What do you think?

Wow-School cancels cross-dressing day

TORONTO - Attention all kindergarten to Grade 8 students: Cross-dressing day is now cancelled.

This was the news given to students of King City Public School, just north of Toronto, on Thursday after the school pulled the plug on holding an "Opposite Gender Day" on Friday, where kids as young as six would be allowed to come to school dressed as the opposite sex.

According to Ross Virgo of the York Region District School Board, King City PS officials cancelled the day following an outcry of opposition from parents.“Opposite Gender Day has been cancelled in the wake of concerns of parents,” said Virgo. “The idea of (kids) experiencing being people of the opposite gender has offended some people in the community, and the school does not want to do that.”Virgo said the chance to dress as the opposite sex was voluntary to students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8. He said it was proposed by the school's student council and approved by the principal.“They discussed the fun that the day might generate, plus how the experience might help boys and girls understand a bit more what what it felt like to be a member of the opposite sex ...That was the plan,” said Virgo.

Virgo said that Opposite Gender Day was a part of the school's Spirit Days, where kids wear something fun and outrageous to school. Other Spirit Days the school has held involve wearing “funny hats” and coming to school in pajamas.

Aeroplane or Bus-Driver arrested for packing 116 kids on bus

JOHANNESBURG - South African police arrested a bus driver on Wednesday for transporting 116 school children in a vehicle designed for 62 passengers, a spokeswoman said.“Traffic authorities saw the vehicle was overloaded and pulled him off the road. He was transferring passengers from school,” Captain Bernadine Steyn said.The 53-year-old man was charged with overloading and was due to appear in court later this month.South Africa has a bad road safety record, with accidents often attributed to poor vehicle maintenance, overloading, dangerous driving and hazardous road conditions.More than 1,000 people died on the country’s roads during the holiday season last month.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

LEXINGTON, N.C.— A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with calling 911 to request a hooker, according to an arrest report obtained by the Lexington Dispatch.

Records show Lonnie Michael Felts called 911 three times on Sunday. The first time he called, he requested “a hooker and an escort to get boots,” the arrestb report showed, according to the Dispatch.After an officer warned Felts about misusing the system, he made two more calls, the newspaper reported.On the third, “Felts called on 911 again for a non-emergency domestic escort,” the Dispatch reported.

ROME - A new Italian film portrays a flashy politician who loves easy sex and hates justice, but with the real prime minister embroiled in a prostitution scandal, critics say political reality is looking stranger than fiction.

The comedy “Qualunquemente” hits Italian theatres this week, just as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi battles a growing storm over allegations that he paid for sex with prostitutes. He says the charges are absurd and dreamed up by biased magistrates.

The film revolves around “Cetto La Qualunque,” a small-time fugitive who returns to his hometown in the southern region of Calabria and runs for mayor to combat what he considers a dangerous wave of law and order sweeping the coastal town.

Flanked by half-naked women, Cetto goes on the campaign trail with the intentionally shocking slogan “I have no dream, but I like pussy.”

Off the trail, Cetto parties with topless women in a hot tub, frequents prostitutes and admiringly tells a bikini-clad woman: “Your lovely body qualifies you for town councillor.” Coming just as Italy grapples with leaked accounts of wild “bunga bunga” parties at Berlusconi’s home with prostitutes procured by a showgirl-turned regional councillor, the film has drawn sizable attention and more than a few snickers.

“The filmmaker assures us it is a ‘very funny’ film, but the truth is that there’s little to laugh at because reality — now, more than ever — has vastly overtaken fiction,” film critic Fulvia Caprara wrote in La Stampa newspaper. “The vulgar horrors on the screen are nothing compared to those we see mentioned in the accounts leaked to newspapers.

Flight attendant receives proposal mid-flight

At 30,000 feet above Portugal, flight attendant Vera Silva’s boyfriend asked for her hand in marriage on a loudspeaker. She happily accepted

Be Careful-Girl falls into mall fountain while texting (video)

It’s easily done. You’re walking along engrossed in your phone, completely oblivious to the world around you, when you walk into something.The girl is oblivious to the danger ahead You dust yourself off, try to hide your embarrassment and get on with your day.

But for one avid phone-user, the unfortunate results of a lack of due care and attention when texting were captured on CCTV – and have now been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on YouTube. In the video, the girl is seen walking along texting, oblivious to the large fountain dead ahead. She then tumbles over the side, falling face down in the water, before retrieving her phone and quickly scrambling away.

And if that wasn’t enough for you, the video also includes more than one angle so you can really appreciate the awkward moment.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Forget asking for a cup of sugar -- this is one way to meet your neighbours and ensure they'll remember you.

A single man in Victoria, B.C., woke up early Saturday morning when he heard someone open the door to his apartment, police said."A few minutes later a woman came into his bedroom, promptly disrobed, slid into the bed next to him and fell asleep," Victoria police said on the force's operations blog. "The difficulty here was that the man lives on his own last time he checked."The man called police at 3:20 a.m. Saturday.

When police arrived, the woman was still asleep. They discovered the woman had the right building and apartment number, but she was on the wrong floor. One officer found her purse, jacket and shoes on the floor in front of her correct apartment door. No one answered when police knocked.

The woman, who police said was "quite intoxicated," was taken into custody until she sobered up.

Why-Iran bans Valentine's Day gifts

TEHRAN - Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.The Feb. 14 celebration named after a Christian saint is not officially banned but hardliners have repeatedly warned about the corruptive spread of Western values. Under Iran’s Islamic law, unmarried couples are not allowed to mingle.

The printing works owners’ union issued an instruction on the ban, imposed by Iranian authorities, covering gifts such as cards, boxes with the symbols of hearts and red roses.“Honouring foreign celebrations is the spread of Western culture,” said the union’s head, Ali Nikou Sokhan, ILNA news agency reported. “Our country has an ancient civilisation and various days to honour kindness, love and affection.”Valentine’s Day has become increasingly popular among the Iranian youth and is a money-maker for businesses in a country where 70 percent of people are under 30 and have no memory of the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.

“Printing and producing any products related to Valentine’s Day, including posters, brochures, advertising cards, boxes with the symbols of hearts, half-hearts, red roses and any activities promoting this day are banned,” read the instruction. “Authorities will take legal action against those who ignore the ban.”Some nationalists have suggested replacing Valentine’s Day with “Mehregan,” an Iranian festival celebrated since the pre-Islamic era. Mehr means friendship, affection or love.

DETERMINED to dazzle on her big day, Sam Skye Lee planned to float down the aisle in a net gown bedecked with fairylights and delicate fabric butterflies with moving wings.

Well, she would have floated if the voluminous dress – wired up to a battery pack hidden inside in her bra – hadn’t weighed 20st. Ex-barmaid Sam, 17, who lives in a caravan in St Helens, Merseyside, said: “I could hardly walk. But it was worth it.”Her marriage to traveller Pat, 20, features in the new C4 series of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, which starts tonight.

Shopkeeper faces jail for locking 40 customers in her store - because she thought one was a thief

A SHOPKEEPER who locked 40 people in her store because she thought one was a thief could face five years in jail.Customers in Szczecin, Poland, were held for an hour but no items were missing. A lawyer said: “This is a case of unlawful imprisonment.”

Monday, January 17, 2011

Police were called after the pair were spotted in the water at Warrandyte North on Sunday.

The pair, both 19, shouted for assistance after the woman lost grip of her sex doll and was left clinging to a tree floating in the river. Police were unsurprisingly less than impressed at being called out to help the young couple.

‘We've got people busy with rescues and to have to divert resources to that sort of thing is not ideal,’ Senior Constable Wayne Wilson is quoted by Stuff.co.nz as saying. 'Most rescue organisations would frown on people behaving in such a manner because there are people out there who are in genuine need of assistance.'

The pair were checked by an ambulance crew after being rescued from the river but did not require any medical attention.

Potato Man of the Year-Man eats only potatoes for 60 days

Chris Voigt must be sick of spuds.For two months all the U.S. man ate was potatoes. And beyond enriching his diet with a whack of fiber, it has earned him a new title.Voigt has been dubbed the Potato Man of the Year.

The award, presented by the Washington State Potato Commission in Las Vegas last weekend, is reserved for potato lovers who work tirelessly to highlight the nutritional value of the starchy vegetable."Our recipient personified this definition," Vicky Boyd told the Columbia Basin Herald. "He sacrificed his body to do so."

Toddler calls 911 send a message to Santa that his Dad is being bad

Usually, Santa Claus shuts down his "Naughty and Nice" lists after Dec. 25, but one toddler tried to get an early start for 2011. A 4-year-old Florida boy called 911 to report that his dad was "being bad" and that he needed to get that urgent message to Santa. Now that might not seem like a proper use of 911 to you, but to a toddler, there is no bigger emergency than a parent who is being mean."Send a message to Santa that will say that dad is being bad. My dad's been very bad, he really did," the boy said confidently, according to a recording of the Jan. 2 emergency call. The Niceville operator on the other end was clearly taken aback but played along with the child to make sure nothing was really wrong. "Send the message all the way to Santa," the boy repeated. "You want me to write a message to Santa?" the operator asked. "OK, what's your name? How old are you?" The child told her he had just turned 4 but didn't want the operator to get distracted from the mission. The operator asked what the boy's dad did that was so bad that Santa had to be notified 11 months before the next Christmas arrived.She didn't get a straight answer, but the child was almost spot-on about what the proper punishment should be. "When you're bad you get a big rock and you have to put it under your house," the kid explained.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Police are investigating a Hamburg plastic surgery clinic after a German porn actress named “Sexy Cora,” made famous by the TV show Big Brother, suffered a heart attack during a breast enhancement operation.Police announced Thursday that the doctors who performed the operation were being investigated for possible treatment errors.Cora, 23, was in an induced coma in an intensive care ward and her condition was considered grave. It was her sixth breast augmentation surgery to go from F to a G cup, daily Bild reported.Evidence of a possible offence was provided to police by a paramedic. Medical equipment and medications were seized by police at the scene. Expert medical investigators had been called in.“By the end of the week, we will in all likelihood begin preliminary proceedings over negligent bodily harm,” said state prosecutor Wilhelm Möllers.

Last year, Cora, from the Hamburg district of Rahlstedt, became famous as a member of the 10th season of the reality programme Big Brother. She spent 43 days in the Big Brother house. She received the award for “Best Amateur 2010” at last year’s Venus erotic industry trade fair.

According to Bild, the young woman wanted her increase the size of her silicon breast enhancements from 500 grammes to 800 grammes each. She went to the Alster Clinic, a plastic surgery clinic in Hamburg.

No escape-thieves get trapped in elevator

BERLIN - Two would-be thieves called in their own crime to police in Germany after they could not escape from a broken-down elevator over the weekend, police said in a statement.

“This sounds really dumb,” one of the thieves told police in Cologne over the elevator’s emergency phone, “But I’m afraid that we wanted to break in and the elevator has gotten stuck.”

When police arrived they found the two thieves aged 31 and 37 stuck in the elevator of an office building.

The thieves allegedly broke into the building and were attempting to reach a higher floor when the elevator became stuck, the police said.They decided to phone for help when one thief injured his hand attempting to pry open the door.Firemen eventually freed the men and they were arrested.

Woman pleasures herself in train – other passengers not amused

The police on Friday said they had arrested a woman having a good time with herself and a vibrator on a train in Bavaria. Despite rubbing her fellow passengers the wrong way, she claimed she didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. The 29-year-old was uninhibited in her use of the vibrator during a train trip between Bad Kissingen and Würzburg on Thursday, the police said. But fellow passengers in the open-plan carriage who weren’t quite as easy going as she was found themselves stimulated in a different way. They complained to the train conductor, who then informed the federal police. When the woman reached Würzburg, she was met by police officers and taken to a nearby station.

The beers that fill from the bottom

If you get irritated in pubs while waiting for your drink, help could be at hand. A beer dispenser that fills glasses in seconds has been invented and is said to be the quickest of its kind in the world. The Bottoms Up Draft Beer Dispenser fills specially made glasses from the bottom up. The glasses are held in place by a magnet, which floats up to a specific fill point before sinking down to plug the hole in the bottom. Its maker, GrinOn of the US, hopes to make a version for the home

Vag. and Non-Vag. together-Woman finds live gecko in her Tesco broccoli

A HOUSEWIFE opened a packet of broccoli – and a gecko crawled out.Margaret Perthen, 62, screamed at the sight of the four-inch lizard in her Tesco veg. She managed to put it in a box and then gave it to vets specialising in exotic pets.She said “I don’t know who was the most frightened – me or the gecko. I felt sorry for him, especially as he had lost his tail. I called it Gordon.”The stowaway survived being heat-sealed in plastic and a 1,000-mile trip from Spain to the shop in Lydney, Glos. Tesco has apologised.